Lovely post and interpretation of the data, Chuck. Thank you. To your final, very smart observation and question: Perhaps, like physicians and medical specialists, the data scientists will take up residence in their own kinds of data clinics, so to speak, treating individual businesses like patients? It makes complete sense that anyone with such far-reaching curiosity, training, and intelligence would not aspire to life in the corporate cubes!

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